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BLAKE3

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BLAKE3 is a cryptographic hash function released in 2020. It is dramatically faster than all previous hash functions due to tree-based parallelism, while maintaining strong security. It serves as a hash, MAC, KDF, and XOF in one function.

What is BLAKE3?

BLAKE3 is a recommended cryptographic hash algorithm that produces a Configurable, default 256 bits (64 hex characters) output. BLAKE3 is a cryptographic hash function released in 2020. It is dramatically faster than all previous hash functions due to tree-based parallelism, while maintaining strong security. It serves as a hash, MAC, KDF, and XOF in one function. It is classified as very fast in performance and commonly used for high-throughput file hashing and integrity verification and content-addressable storage systems.

Output Length

Configurable, default 256 bits (64 hex characters)

Speed

Very Fast

Security

Recommended

Performance

Fastest secure hash function available. 5-10x faster than SHA-256 on modern hardware with SIMD and multi-threading support.

Use Cases

Example Hash

Input:

Hello, World!

BLAKE3 Output:

288a37729e35bdbf06e1e9e9e15f16e069831b061a2b0555c8a7398e4d521241

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Related Algorithms

SHA-256 Recommended
256 bits (64 hex characters)
SHA-3-256 Recommended
256 bits (64 hex characters)
BLAKE2b Recommended
Configurable, up to 512 bits (typically 256 or 512 bits)

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